I have posted updated versions of the .NET Framework setup verification tool, the .NET Framework cleanup tool, and the sample code to detect .NET Framework install states that support detecting, verifying, and cleaning up the .NET Framework 4.7.1. You can find more information about how to download and use these tools at the following locations:…

I have posted updated versions of the .NET Framework setup verification tool, the .NET Framework cleanup tool, and the sample code to detect .NET Framework install states that support detecting, verifying, and cleaning up the .NET Framework 4.7. You can find more information about how to download and use these tools at the following locations:…

GDC 2017 is happening this week in San Francisco, and Chris Charla (the director of the ID@Xbox program at Microsoft) posted an item at http://news.xbox.com/2017/03/01/xbox-gdc-2017/ that provides details about new features that are coming for Xbox One developers and consumers. Of particular note for developers is the introduction of the Xbox Live Creators Program. This…

I have posted updated versions of the .NET Framework setup verification tool, the .NET Framework cleanup tool, and the sample code to detect .NET Framework install states that support detecting, verifying, and cleaning up the .NET Framework 4.6.2. You can find more information about how to download and use these tools at the following locations:…

As announced at the end of last week in this post on the Windows developer blog, we recently released the Windows Device Portal Wrapper project on GitHub and have now added it to NuGet as well. The Windows Device Portal Wrapper project wraps the Device Portal APIs to make it easier to build custom tools…

I want to highlight a couple of new features available starting this week for developers using Xbox Dev Mode. Publish UWPs for Xbox One You can now use Dev Center to publish your UWP apps for Xbox One consoles. You can read more details about this functionality in this blog post and in the Dev…

The Windows Apps Team announced an App Dev on Xbox online event on August 30, 2016 (a week from today!) and I wanted to post a link here as well in case you missed it. Here are introductory links: Blog post – https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/08/23/announcing-the-app-dev-on-xbox-live-event/ Event details and schedule – https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/projects/campaigns/app-dev-on-xbox-event Getting started information to help you…

As previously reported by Xbox Wire and Major Nelson, the Xbox One Summer Update has been released. If you have a console that was enrolled in the UWP on Xbox One program prior to the release of the Xbox One Summer Update, it should already be running the Summer Update console OS build (10.0.14393.1018 rs1_xbox_rel_1608.160725-1822)….

A new developer preview build is now available for UWP on Xbox One. Here are some links with information about what is new and changed in this build as well as some key known issue: Forum post announcing the June 2016 Developer Preview for UWP on Xbox One What’s new in the June 2016 Developer…

A couple of months ago, we announced a UWP Apps on Xbox One developer preview that allows anyone to convert their retail Xbox One to developer mode and deploy and debug UWP apps on them. Yesterday, a new video was posted on Channel 9 where a couple of my colleagues describe Xbox One dev kit…